Nearness Quotes (8 quotes)

“The further from one another, the nearer one can be.”
― August Strindberg, The Road to Damascus: A Trilogy

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“Having drunk the dregs of Your Love,
I am intoxicated beyond recognition.
Now, I only pray for the nearness of You
so I may advance in my annihilation.”
― Kamand Kojouri

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“Wide awake to the presence of God, I realized I had been so focused on asking why a good God allowed bad things to happen that I was missing out on the nearness of God all along. In becoming preoccupied with the why, I was missing the who.”
― Margaret Feinberg, Wonderstruck: Awaken to the Nearness of God

tags: christian, god, nearness

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“After so many years, we kept our nearness, by paying with our distance.”
― Mladen Đorđević, Svetioničar - Vesnici oluje

tags: distance, love-quotes, nearness, past, present, price, relationship

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“Xeno couldn't manage too much nearness. He was solitary and introverted, with an enthusiasm that people mistook for sociability. He was interested in everything, attentive to people, genuinely kind, and entirely present when he was present. But he was never sorry to close the door at night or to be alone.”
― Jeanette Winterson, The Gap of Time

tags: being-alone, closeness, introverts, nearness, people, relationships, solitude

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“Nothing brings home closer than going home...”
― Will Advise

tags: closeness, home, nearness, nostalgia, nothing, relativeness, relatives, reunions, travel, visiting

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“To achieve perfection would require a coldness foreign to man, and he would lost the human heart that makes him love perfection. In awe we worship the impulse to perfection of great artists. We love their approximation to perfection, but we love it because it is only an approximation.”
― Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

tags: irony, nearness, perfection

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“Since I met you, I’ve felt abandoned without your nearness; your nearness is all I ever dream of, the only thing.”
― Franz Kafka, The Castle

tags: nearness

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